he goes by the name of jack ruby. >> and here at associated press, a still picture of the moment, theond as the shot was fired. this is the man dallas police have identified as jack rubenstein and this of course is lee harvey oswald. you see the gun in the hand of ruby and just about to be fired. >> i know my own feelings were and i think they were widely shared by many, if not most americans, this can't be coincidental. the assassin is assassinated in the police station. what in the hell is going on? >> just learned from city hall from an authoritative source, that police are working on the assumption that there, indeed, a connection between jack ruby and lee oswald. and that in some manner of speaking, oswald's murder was to shut him up. >> word also in just now from dallas that homicide chief captain will fritz has now said that the case of president kennedy's assassination is now closed with the death of oswald. it may not, however, be the opinion of the u.s. secret service or other federal bureau of investigation. the ceramides in cerave. they help restore my natural barrier, so

the division where he shot the picture just before jack ruby fired the gun. and when need dallas morning news came out, there was jack's -- there was the picture of jack holding the.net and oswaldg him there. the times herald came out and the picture of jackson and the reaction when oswald was actually shot. ack the photographer was broken man after that. not too long after that, and his family totally hates jackson and his family. it was ridiculous. he made a picture that was not as good as the other guy pause picture, but he was there and he made something. you sort of say, well we had a lot of photographers who were famous and they would've done this or that. and but you were not there you did not make it. you cannot say, i would have done this or that the gazette is not ever going to happen. that is pretty funny. don for upi was there when ronald reagan was shot. he made pictures that one pulitzers and all kinds of things. ripca was disheartened because it he had good pictures but not with hartman had. two or three days later. he called upi headquarters in

they used it in defense for jack ruby. so the -- so the pool photographer -- photographed sam ruby, his brother, talking to his sister. interesting, we often say that these photos we have in evidence of are there being a trial. did you have the sense of what that would be? >> of course immediately, just before he got shot, see how much dallas -- general walker had a lot of of strong support, ultraconservative reports. been involved in the shooting of the president. shot in thesomebody window of general lockers home, which turned out to be lee harvey oswald. you never know exactly what you are doing until you get to the point where the picture has made it. that picture of mine was the first pick sure that most people saw in dallas. it was a situation, driving by at the right place at the right time. hard to believe but i started my photography as president of the -- photography of presidents of the united states when general eisenhower had been elected and not tober of 1953. at shelley air force base. the students at the hig

i don't know if there had to do inh it, but they used it defense for jack ruby. so her shorn was the pool photographer for the verdict. also photographed, during the course of the ruby trial, i photographed sam ruby, his tother, his sister talking tommy. >> if i can jump in, it is sayresting -- we often that these news photos that we collect in our archive site evidence. there is a case of wanting your photos literally being evidence. as the have a sense motorcade photo appeared on tv of how historic that image would be? to heikes: lot until i got the lobby and found out kennedy was shot. immediately, mrs. conley had told the president just before he got shot, see how much dallas loves you. they were always scared to go to dallas anyways. general walker had a lot of strong support, ultraconservative support in dallas and a lot of people he could have been involved in the shooting of the president. things thatthe happen was somebody shot it will in the window at general walker's home on turner creek, which turned out to be lee .arvey oswald you never know exactly w

and they in the defense for jack ruby. and so shell was the pool photographer for the verdict. i had also photographed during the course of the ruby trial, i photographed sam ruby, his brother. photographed his sister. all of them talking to tan hail. >> if i can jump in. it's interesting we often say that these news photographs that we have here in the archives and we collect are evidence. there was a case of one of your photographs being evidence during a trial. did you have a sense as the motorcade photo appeared on tv, how historic the image would be? >> not until i got to the times herd harold office and found out kennedy had been shot. of course immediately. told the president before he got shot, see how much dallas loves you. they had been scared to go to dallas anyway. general walker had a lot of strong support. ultraconservative support in dallas. people thought he could have been involved in the shooting of the president. there was also one of the things that happened. when somebody shot a hole in the window of general walkers home on turtle creek. which turned out to

i'm going to photograph jack ruby doing the walk-in every day and the walk out until they call me. so he ends up saying the first week you didn't get called and the second week, like wednesday everybody sat on the floor because there was nowhere to sit in the hallway. they had had equipment on the floor. and we had a pres room at the opposite end of the court room down it it corridor and it dead end. there were two rooms. they used one for a press room. i said to a couple of my colleagues i'm going to call the office and tell them i haven't been called and it's pretty quiet. and i had my cameras around me and walk up the stairs, past the elevators, down to the empty courtroom and didn't realize one of my competitors was behind me. ap photographer and he was going to do the same thing and i didn't hear him when he said it. so i get down to the end of the hallway and it would dead end at the end of the hallway but the courtroom was dead ahead and there were two doors to the courtroom. so i go to walk towards the opening of the l-shape part of the hallway and i heard a woman scream an

oh, that's just jack ruby. he's our buddy. >> and what about the hoover note saying that upset that the fbi had warned the dallas police that there was, quote, a committee to get jack ruby, to kill jack ruby, and he was upset that the dallas police -- >> j. edgar hoover looks pretty good in all this. i know he had his critics. i thought he was trying to do his job. he didn't want to start some craziness until he had the facts. what we can tell from these notes he was trying to find out if there was a conspiracy. he wanted to know what was behind it because the fbi didn't look too great beforehand. andrea mitchell and my pals, thank you so much. we've been through this all in real time. we really were. thanks for putting their wrapping around this story. it's an amazing storyment coming up, it's official. the republican party has become donald trump's party. last night i called it the invasion of the body snatchers. regular republicans now in the grips of the triumphant right wing. any way, marching to the beat

you know my friend jack ruby i said in page one hundred eight an employee he was a big shot in the us vegas and that he would bring strippers there and and they had to sleep with him in order to get ahead in las vegas and invest it all come on he was it to be you know somebody running that carousel and he was a nobody just you know as a matter of fact we have a document that's come out now says that when only eight days before the assassination jack ruby is in las vegas and he's riding around in a rolls royce that the tropicana motel gave him to use he. checked in with his favorite stripper at the time they were mr and mrs rubin so and there are many other things that come out in the book and before i just it was just my were. no there are. you know and i'm sorry i interrupted you i'm going to the time a short oh no absolutely so one of the things which mean that and some of the stuff that came out about. richard helms as a deputy cia director under kennedy who later became a cia chief to the rockefeller commission which was. a cia activities and domestic players. one thing that's

we've got frank johnston who was there at the lee harvey oswald shooting when jack ruby shot lee harvey oswald in november 1963. frank was also at the jim jones suicide massker in geonau. and a stringer for the united press international but spent a lot of years as a staff photographer for the washington post. it began in 1968. erick draper's another one. he was the only official white house photographer for george w. bush. and erick's work he's also worked as a staff photographer for the seattle times and the pasade pasadena tribune. and it's of particularly noteworthy because of the incredible vantage point he had had covering 9/11 right out of the white house. then we've also got daryl hawks who was a stringer for upi, associated press and was particularly important from our standpoint as a photographer covering the carter administration because carter strangely enough never really had had an official white house photographer. and so the press, the photo gejournalists have th images we would have normally gotten through a white house photographer. then lucian perkins, a pulitzer priz

we have got frank johnston, who was there at the lee harvey oswald shooting, when jack ruby shot lee harvey oswald, november of 1963. frank was also at the jim jones suicide massacre. he was a stringer for the united press international for several years but spent a lot of years as a staff photographer for the "washington post." i think he began in about 1968. eric draper is another one. eric draper was the only official white house photographer for george w. bush. eric's work -- he also worked as a staff photographer for "the seattle times," "the albuquerque also for "the associated press." his work is particularly noteworthy because of the vantage point that he had covering 9/11, right out of the white house. we also have darryl heikes, who was a stringer for upi, associated press, and was particularly important from our standpoint as a photographer covering the carter administration. because carter, strangely enough, never really had an official white house ,hotographer and so the press the photojournalists who covered the carter administration really had the images that we would

hoover also on record saying oswald's killer, jack ruby danned making that call. >> two months before jfa's assassination oswald was interceptedi speak to go a kgb officer. >> the white house did not receive all of the requests until yesterday. that left a scrambling to funnel all the information to the president. >> one official says he was unhappy with the level of redactions and that's why the president has directed the agencies to further review their reasons for keeping some of the recor records secret and report back within 180 days. we could get more information including the potential answer to that cliff happeninger about whether oswald was a cia agent. >>> new ethical questions facing the president and justice department this morning after it emerging the president personally influenced the decision to lift a gag order on an undercover informant. all of this circling back to who else? but hillary clinton. the informant played a critical role in the fbi's investigation in the russian's effort the to gain influence in the u.s. ure ran yum industry. >> last week chuck grassley

i'm wondering why they're with holing the jack ruby information? >> you know, that's a good question. there was a poll recently that said something like more than half, something like 61% of americans believe there was some sort of conspiracy involved in the assassination of president kennedy. i'm not one of them. i believe oz wald acted alone in the assassinations, by withholding these 300 documents yet again, what the government has done is essentially give more fuel to the conspiracy theories going on for 50 years, for longer than that, it's crazy and what i think ismind behind it is the old cia, the cia and the fbi trying to cover up their mistakes, the fact they knew more about oz wald than they have told us before the assassination and the implication is they should have done something. >> right t. question, heidi, why would you withhold the document it was a pertaining to business person that met withiac ruby right before he killed oswald? >> well, i guess based on what i've read, the problem from the very beening has been the over classific

anything newhere to know about why jack ruby did it?these documents we have seen so far, and i want to stress, we have not come close to finishing the work just on the, and the ones that trump held back may well include more information about ruby and oswalt and everyone else. that is the good stuff. what we've got right now basically doesn't change the timeline of the assassination, doesn't change the basics, but it does add some very interesting little qualities to it that we were not fully a mill your with prior to this. charlie: like? i will give you an example. one document had been released in part before this and this particular document shows that a phone call was made to a reporter at a cambridge newspaper in the united kingdom. 05 p.m.l came in at 12: dallas time, 20 five minutes before president kennedy was assassinated. the anonymous caller said, you'd call the american mc, there's going to be big news coming out of the united states. either that's the greatest coincidence in world history, or it suggests call the that someb

and another one names candy cane said kitty was connected to night club owner jack ruby.tay with us. now stay with us. he's the man who shot kennedy's assassin lee harvey oswald days after he shot the president. >> according to the files, kitty was never found because she reportedly committed suicide in the months before the assassination. that is just one of the stories coming from the nearly 3000 declassified jfk files. >> there are also strange phone calls and mention of marilyn monroe and talk about other records that were held after request by intelligence agencies, cnn randi kaye has a look at what we've learned. >> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> reporter: newly released jfk files reveal not only did lee harvey oswald travel to mexico city but spoke with a kgb officer there at the russian embassy. who worked for a department responsible for sabotage and assassination. adding to the intrigue, a cia memo detailing an intercepted phone call from oswald to the embassy, oswald in broken russian asked if there was, quote, anything new concer

states' rights party because he was making a speech in florida in january detailing how he believed jack ruby who killed oswald had been working with oswald to set him up with the job at the book depository, let him know where the route was, and then he killed oswald to keep him quiet. that's just one of the endless bits of information with all sorts of theories how this happened. the soviets, think it was an ultraright-wing group trying to knock kennedy out of power. people down in mexico. it's a whole huge mix of things out there. and really what you see in this, don, more than anything else is that the net was unbelievably wide. and they were talking to almost everybody who knew almost anything to see if it would tell them something about how this happened beyond just lee harvey oswald. >> tom foreman, thank you very much. so much to talk about when it comes to this. tim, i'm going to start with you. you have been looking through these documents and you found some very interesting material about j. edgar hoover in the investigation. what can you share about that? >> well, the house investi

shooting the president but two days later while in police custody was killed by a nightclub on a jack ruby the following year a commission headed by chief justice earl warren looked at the evidence and concluded that all alone and killing kennedy but in january nine hundred ninety two the film j.f.k. by all of the stone captivated the public imagination with conspiracy theories including the alleged involvement of u.s. intelligence agencies and in order to contain that congress passed a law promising the release of classified files relation to j.f.k.'s death within twenty five years. has moved from dallas. the twenty eight hundred some files the u.s. national archives is releasing account for the last one percent of the investigative records into the assassination of president john f. kennedy it was in one nine hundred sixty three that the president traveled down this road in his open top motorcade accompanied by his wife when a sniper shot president kennedy in the head killing him and x. still marks the spot where kennedy was slain now the remaining documents are not expected to contain a

oswald's killer, jack ruby, maintained he acted alone and denied making the call. a white house official telling cnn the president was unhappy of the level of retkabgtions requested by intelligence agencies saying they were not meeting the spirit of the law. >> here is what is head scratching about this. the intelligence agencies have had years to govern the law. president trump has given them 180 more days to, again, look at their reasons, to rereview the reasons for requesting information be withheld so more documents may see the light. >> six months until the really juicy stuff. >> want to break in a jfk historian and fbi analyst who was involved in the assassination investigation and the custodian for the record of the investigation. and the author of "cruel and shocking act:the history of the kennedy assassination." what was revealed overnight that we should focus on the most? >> well, i think the overreaching conclusion that i came to yesterday is that the government delivered a very poor response to a 1992 law. i mean, if everybody wants to believe the gover

that jack ruby stuff is interesting to me the other thing going to get a confession in the hospital, i thought that was kind of interesting but not able to do that, like a last-minute press to try to get that nugget to say, okay, we can wrap this up and close it down in history would've been very different, i think, if they had been able to obtain that. one other thing, dana, i found really interesting was the phone call, there was an intercept of a phone call connecting like we talk about the russians -- i mean, they are everywhere -- between oswald and also a death threat against him. those things were pretty interesting where new, kind of revealing. >> i thought that he was making a lot of sense. greg, what do you think about this british newspaper getting a warning 25 minutes before question makes because sometimes i that is... >> sometimes i think that is... you get a lot of chatter and it happens or terrorist attacks as well. it might've been a coincidence. i don't know who warned them. i don't know that part. it's interesting. what you are getting is a look at what happens all

was making a speech in florida in january after the assassination, detailing how he believed ruby, jack ruby, who killed oswald, had been working with oswald to set him up at the job at the book depository, make sure he was in a position to let him know where the route was, he was connected to police and that sort of thing and he killed oswald to keep him quiet. that sort of thing. that's one of endless numbers of bits of information they seem to have taken in here with people with all sorts of different theories about this happened. the soviets thinking it was an ultra right-wing group trying to knock kennedy out of power. the cubans saying that -- some of their intelligence officers, oh, i knew oswald, he was a good shot. people down in mexico. it's a whole huge mix of things out there and really what you see in this, don, more than anything else, is that the net was unbelievably wide and they were talking to almost everybody who knew almost anything to see if it would tell them something about how this happened beyond just lee harvey oswald. >> tom foreman, thank you very much. i want to

we're still unsure of his motive thanks to jack ruby, who i consider one of the real villains of the kennedy assassination. had he not shot oswald, it's most certain the police would have gotten his motives rather quickly, by hook or crook rather quickly. >> rose: do we know anything about why jack ruby did it? >> not in these documents we've seen so far. i want to stress, we've got come i want to stress, we've not come close to finishing the work just on these, and the ones that trump held back may well include more information about ruby and oswald and everybody else. that's the good stuff. what we've got now basically doesn't change the time line of the assassination, doesn't change the basics, but it adds some interesting little qualities to it that we weren't fully familiar with prior to this. >> rose: like? >> well, i'll give you an example. one document had been released in part before this, and this particular document shows that a telephone call was made to a reporter at a cambridge newspaper in the united kingdom. the call came in at 12:05 p.m. dallas time, 25 minutes befor

and it turns out even before lee harvey oswald was killed by dallas nightclub owner jack ruby, there was a warning his life was in jeopardy. a memo from then fbi director j. edgar hoover reveals that the day after jfk was killed, the fbi got a call from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill oswald. hoover says the fbi shared that information with the dallas police chief. hoover said back in 1963 that he was assured adequate protection would be given. however, this was not done. >> oswald was shot dead while being escorted out of the basement of the dallas police department. and what about those rumored plots to kill fidel castro, who at the time was the leader of cuba? the ju files contain a 1975 document detailing how then attorney general robert kennedy told the fbi that he learned the cia had hired someone to approach the mob. another plot to kill castro detailed the documents would have involved the cia's use of an american lawyer sent to negotiate with castro for the release of the bay of pigs prisoners. the man was for the law

the next day, dallas nightclub owner jack ruby shot and killed him inside police headquarters on liveion. there's more than 2,800 newly released records but president trump did not let hundreds of files under a six-month review. kristin fisher is live with more. >> trace, in many ways the files raised more questions than answers. take this document from a deposition by the deputy cia director under kennedy. he was asked by an attorney, is there any information involved with the assassination of president kennedy which in any way shows that lee harvey oswald was a cia agent? it's a fascinating question but we don't get an answer. another cliff-hanger, an anonymous call made to a reporter in london 25 minutes before j.f.k. was shot. the reporter said the cambridge news reporter should call the embassy in london for big news and hung up. again, 25 minutes before j.f.k. was shot. then there's also some more salacious tidbits in these documents involving trippers and alleged sex parties. one fbi files has information on the bureau's attempt to locate a stripper named kitty that is reported

. >> fueling the shooting, jack ruby killing lee harvey are as we harvey oswald moments after the killingn over 50 years since america mourned the loss of its young leader, something that has not really healed or had a satisfactory ending. the assassination of john f. kennedy was a turning point not just because the young president had been cut down in his rhyme, but many americans came to believe that their government simply wasn't telling them the truth. part of the reason why congress ordered this document dump was to regain that lost trust. the historical irony is that the decision to release the documents -- files rests with a modern-day president trump, who has promoted jfk theories himself. jane: i'm sure some conspiracy theories will stay with us much longer. -- >> on the taxiway, a five ton generate sixcan times more powerful than an entire formula one grid and accelerate to 130 miles per hour in under eight seconds. this is a really important day. if they can get the engine and systems working together at 200 miles per hour, then the car is well on the way to its eventual target

just days after his arrest he was killed on live television shot by an enraged businessman named jack ruby who joined the throng of reporters to see oswald escorted through the dallas police department i think that's the root of the way that the police in the and kind of the feds handled. walden and. the ruby deal i just think that there's a lot of things that we need to know researchers hope more answers can be found in the twenty eight hundred j.f.k. files released by the national archives they're among the last classified records of the investigation hidden from the public for fifty four years and now compelled by law to be released what secrets do they contain nothing that would change the outcome of the investigation but some pages stand out a report about jack ruby's possible ties to the mafia and interview with a cuban embassy worker about oswald's request for a visa and various records of the kennedy administration's covert efforts to overthrow the cuban government it just shows what. i hope her powers are capable of and that scares me a little bit and then either way i just like t

and accused of killing kennedy two days later all swelled with himself killed by a nightclub or a jack ruby while still in place custody the following year a commission headed by chief justice or a warrant to the evidence and concluded that in killing kennedy also old had acted alone but in january one thousand nine hundred ninety two the film j.f.k. by all of a stone captivated the public image as many magination with conspiracy. the reason including the alleged involvement of u.s. intelligence agencies well in order to contain that congress passed a law promising the release of the classified files relating to j.f.k.'s death within twenty five years which brings us of course to now or twenty six two thousand and seventeen the final day that those files could be released but with more on this i'm joined now by bill sanderson journalist and author of diligence from dallas reporting the j.f.k. assassination bill a very warm welcome to the program so we are going to see these files released today well that's what the that's what the law states there's only one person can stop the release of t

which is that it was a single assassin. >> he was saying it was in the wake of jack ruby killing oswald, two days after the assassination and what hoover was smart enough to understand, he may be an authoritarian figure but he was smart. we knew the moment oswald was dead, no public trial and presentation of evidence and people would immediately think of conspiracy. hoover was convinced oswald was the shooter and we have to make sure people knew he did it. >> alexandra, if anybody knows about conspiracy theorists it has to be your family. your great grandfather shot this film that we're looking at now. we just want to let people know that we're going to show the film, not the point of impact but this extraordinary footage that has become both the source of so much information as well as so many conspiracies. i wonder what you made of what did and didn't come out yesterday and if you're sort of having these flash backs to all of the conspiracies that grew out of what your great granddad did? >> i wouldn't say i'm having flash backs but i do think that really the release of these files ki

shot and left to die, inspiring conspiracy theories that he had been silence, and that his killer, jack rubyhad my connections. from j edgar hoover, a rush to the thing i am concerned about is having something issued so we can convince the public that all small is the real assassin." 25 minutes after john f. kennedy's debt can even as his motorcade was making its way through the streets of dallas, the documents reveal that there was an anonymous call to the cambridge newspaper that big news was and the offing. >> i don't remember what happened at the time, 1963, but it may well be that it was a crank call that had nothing to do with reality. nick: part of a conspiracy, or simply a coincidence? many of the documents add to the confusion. it has not yet proven to be quite a treasure trove that jfk scholars were hoping for. the crown jewels, the most classified materials, are being held under lock and key at the national archives in the following last-minute interventions by the cia and fbi. president trump wants those released over the next six months. it is more than half a century since kenn

and just as quickly killed by a local nightclub owner, jack ruby. >> lee oswald has been shot. >> reporter: the mystery deepened. was there a conspiracy to kill the president? most americans today believe that there was. despite the fact the warren commission concluded in 1965 oswald acted alone. though in 1979 a house select committee concluded kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. over the years, there have been dozens of books written, many movies made, too. the best known of them, oliver stone's "jfk." >> once you conclude the magic bullet could not create all seven of those wounds, you have to conclude that there was a fourth shot and a second rifle. >> reporter: a good film, it won two oscars. but good history? >> there is no settled idea about who killed john kennedy and why and perhaps with what help, and what that means, i think, is that there's never going to be an explanation that satisfies everyone. >> reporter: we do know this, that day marked the end of an era. the end, as a grieving mrs. kennedy suggested, of camelot. cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new

and what about jack ruby murdering oswald on live tv. >> what we will find out including what the fbiew about oswald and didn't disclose to the warren commission never told the public over the years. >> the president enjoys stirring up controversy this will stir up nationwide controversy. >> the kennedy family said president trump is not consult them. >> i understand the historic value, but -- >> reporter: the white house says it has the right to hold back any documents if it finds them to be too classified or too personal. most likely jfk's autopsy will not be revealed. >> a rodin sculpture worth millions of dollars was hiding in plain sight. a marble bust of napoleon has been sitting in the hartly build in madison for decades. nobody knew it was a rodin until they hired a woman to help catalogue their collection. >> it has been sitting here in the 85 years. >> geraldine rockefeller dodge donated all the antiques. it will be coming to philadelphia next month tore the 100 anniversary of rodin's death. >>> bronze star and purple heart was presented to the family of james davis. he was

call at its dallas office, threatening oswald's life the night before he was shot and killed by jack ruby. >> still, not all files were released. roughly 300 documents, are being classified at least for now out of concern for us national security. in a memo, president trump directed agencies that requested re dabbing sean to reconsider their reasons over the next five months, jim, rahel, important to note most historians do believe there was one shooter and no conspiracy. aren't expecting any bombshells here, so we'll glee so a lot of people still interested. thank you, jan, appreciate t time 5:37 in business news this morning, oh, oh, potential shortage of iphone pens. >> that's how i i want to spend a thousand dollars, jim. diane king hall joins us live from the new york took stock exchanges with that and more, good morning, diane. >> reporter: good morning, rahel, and jim, you guys are too cute. start from wall street, mixed finish fosh stocks, the dow gained 71 points, the nasdaq fell seven. iphone pen sales begin today. talking about pre-orders. the it is expected to be high but supp

also fueling decades of speculation, jack ruby's shocking murder of oswald on live tv. and questions about the role of the russian, the cubans, the mafia, even the >> what we will find out is possibly what the fbi and the cia knew about oswald and didn't disclose to the warren commission, the original investigating body but never told the public over the years. >> reporter: experts say they could show the cia had critical information that oswald was in mexico city and potentially dangerous seven weeks before the assassination and failed to tell anyone including the fbi when he returned. something that could be quite embarrassing for the cia. president trump has until thursday to decide if he will keep some documents classified. kenneth moton, abc news, dallas. >> our thanks to kenneth in dallas. >>> a vietnam veteran who saved as many as 70 lives during a secret mission will be presented with the medal of honor today. retired army captain gary rose was the only medic dropped into the jungle for four days. while coming under heavy fire he use the his body as a human shie

fuelling the conspiracy theories, the shooting of lee harvey oswald, by dallas nightclub owner, jack rubyre about a trip 0swald made to mexico just weeks before, where he met soviet and cuban spies. it's more than 50 years since america mourned the loss of its young leader. a national wound that has never truly healed and a chapter in the national story that has never had a satisfactory ending. the assassination ofjohn f kennedy was a turning point, notjust because a 46—year—old president had been cut down in his prime, but because many americans came to believe that their government simply wasn't telling them the truth. part of the reason why congress ordered this document dump was to regain that lost trust. the historical irony is that the decision to release the files rests with a modern—day president, donald trump, who has promotedjfk conspiracy theories himself. but will they bring a sense of closure? nick bryant, bbc news, washington. stay with us on bbc news. still to come — the promise and the problems of genetic testing — we visit iceland where one expert is warning about the dan

. >> and throwing the weirdness of jack ruby, the guy that ran a strip club i think connected with the chicago mob and the chicago mob had it out for kennedy in so many ways, and you throw that into the mix with whatever oswald had, that's where these conspiracy, bottom line is-- >> neil: that guy was a communist and he was trained by the russians and trained by them >> kennedy: and he went to mexico. >> ben: we don't know all of the connections but that's the biggest trouble we have despite the presidents that have been shot and killed in office is that we cannot fathom that alone nut can put it off. >> well he did it in las vegas recently. we're still looking for that. >> neil: that doesn't mean there aren't these communist connections and everything else but in the end. >> how about ted cruz's old man. someone should have asked trump about that. >> kennedy: they've all been redacted. wouldn't it be lovely if we could get the truth? absolutely right here americans we can handle it its been 25 years since they authorized the release. this happened in 1963, neil? you weren't even born

of course that's all we're focussed on two days later when oswald was shot and killed by jack ruby.omething was afoot. what could come out of these papers, that is most interesting though, actually goes back before that by several weeks when oswald who had lived for a while in the soviet union made a trip to mexico city, people have always wanted to know more about this. late september, early october, while he was there, it is known that he went to the cuban consulate and to the russian embassy, trying to get visas. he did not get those visas, but people have always wanted to know more about who he talked to, what he was trying to do, was he in contact with other people and, what they really to want know and they're hoping might come out of this is what the fbi, what the cia knew about all of this. the key questions being, did they know something about what he was planning and failed to act upon it in an expeditious manner or after the killing did they know something that would have exposed more of an idea that other people were involved and for some reason, they did not get that ou

a he was being transported by the police and he was then shot while in police custody killed by jack ruby so many questions were asked ever since the assassination took place many questions have been asked about oswald's motive what happened was there some kind of wider plot what was really going on in the kennedy assassination now some of the papers that have been released have prompted some very interesting questions these new files that have just come out are containing some rather interesting facts for example one of the files shows that a local newspaper in the united kingdom in cambridge was tipped off twenty five minutes before the assassination someone called a local newspaper and told them that they should get in contact with the u.s. embassy because there was going to be some quote big news and this took place twenty five minutes before the u.s. president was shot very very interesting one of the other interesting things that comes out of this report is a conversation you know there was the wrist something called the warren commission now this was the commission formed by the u.